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TL;DR

I really liked the horror and gory parts of this book, we get alternate chapters of our main protagonist and then one with The Skeleton Man, those were the hightlight of this book. I liked this book primarily because of his chapters.

My Scoring System

I have five things I look for in a book, if the book checks all five it's a 5/5 stars book, if it checks none it's a 1/5 stars and everything else is a combination:

✓ - Main Story: It's actually interesting but it could have been better, we get introduced with this couple that do a hunting show as a side gig and I thought that aspect could have been the main story but sadly it isn't.

X - Side Stories (if it applies): A few uninteresting side stories like Jacker's stuff and the reporters ones that I thought should have been the main story.

X - Characters: I didn't particularly liked most of the characters. Ratchel and Stephen were the only decent ones, our main protagonist is not someone I enjoy reading about. A lot of "No, I have to do this, I'm done running away", two seconds later "Get me out of here!" that made me roll my eyes.

✓ - Setting/Ambiance: I liked the creepy town of Widowsfield, it was creepy and atmospheric. Too bad that's just the ending few chapters.

✓ - Ending: I liked the ending, it leads nice into the next book and I feel like we got at least some answers even if we didn't get the full story yet. I wasn't dissapointed with it.

Extensive Review

The horror and gory stuff were the hightlight of this book, every chapter with The Skeleton Man is good, the rest of it is kinda boring up untill the last few chapters where they go to the town. If this book didn't have the horror chapters I would have been bored for almost the entire story. It's worth reading just for the gory chapters.

I was sad when the hunted side gig of the reporters wasn't a bigger part. It would have been nice to have that as the main focus and as a side story the actual main story of our protagonist.